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The Correlation Between Psychopathy and ASPD: Factors, Development and Treatment
- 1 Faculty of Art, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, B3H 3C3, Canada
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Abstract
This review article attempts to find the relationship between psychopathy and ASPD and their symptoms, causes, continuity of development from childhood to adulthood, and treatments. The available study findings have not comprehensively covered the subject, especially how the behaviours in ASPD and psychopathy relate to violence and crime. Psychopathy has a close relationship with ASPD. People suffering from ASPD cannot easily co-exist with others due to amoral behaviour. On the other, Psychopathy differs from Psychosis in various ways because the former is a trait while the latter is a condition. The research also indicates that not all ASPD patients can test positive for psychopathy. In addition, criminals should not necessarily have psychopathic personality traits. The available studies have addressed psychopaths in adolescents and adulthood. The studies provided empirical evidence as researchers have conducted investigations using different samples and sampling techniques. For example, a study in 1999 involved 463 children alongside their parents. They observed the results when trying to link alcoholism to psychopathy.
Keywords
Aggression, Psychopathic Personality, Adolescent Psychopathy, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Crime
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Chen,F. (2023). The Correlation Between Psychopathy and ASPD: Factors, Development and Treatment. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,3,903-910.
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